Word: rank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like their colleagues, four of the new additions are top-rank men of science: Caltech's Physics Professor R. F. Bacher, Harvard's Nobel Prizewinning Physicist E. M. Purcell, University of California's Livermore Laboratory Director Herbert York, Harvard Chemistry Professor George B. Kistiakowsky. The fifth new member, Lieut. General (ret.) James Harold Doolittle, is a notable all-round man -engineer (doctor of science, M.I.T., 1925), topflight air commander in World War II, executive (a director and vice president of Shell Oil Co.). and one of the clearest voices in the field of defense. M.I.T...
...successfully blocked the elevation of Cinemactor James (The Spirit of St. Louis) Stewart to reserve brigadier general in the Air Force. Her contention: Stewart's glamour could not justify the advancement. With no hint that she would like someday to be a chicken colonel (Stewart's rank), Senator Smith, light colonel in the U.S.A.F. Reserve, last week got back into uniform, prepared for a month's study of guided missiles...
...real nature of the Communist beast is obviously still news to ex-Party Member Fast. The rank and file, he continues to insist, were "the bravest and the best." The betrayers of the socialist dreams were the leaders, who rule by terror and, above all, by "magic." The onetime holder (1953) of the Stalin Peace Prize tries to explain and expose that evil Red magic; he sees Big Brother's ultimate depredations in the destruction of conscience ("The very nature of right and wrong has changed"). Considering Author Fast's onetime reputation, the book will take its minor...
...trap. Disguised as a private, Captain Kovacs races cross-country in an Army truck to break up the party, blissfully unaware that the truck is loaded with German prisoners. When the M.P.s, tipped off by Lemmon, accuse him of engineering an escape, Kovacs blusters and pulls rank. Alas, nobody will believe him, and he is hauled off to the stockade, a broken man who can only point piteously at a big, black, fiercely aggressive mustache that no longer seems to impress anybody. "It's me," he says pleadingly. "Don't you remember...
...wear a prosthesis, an artificial palate, which could never be made to fit comfortably, and which distorted his speech and face. His physical pain was compounded in this period by personal tragedies: the deaths of his daughter Sophie, his grandson, his mother, and the defection of his close friends, Rank and Ferenczi, both of whom subsequently died insane. These were "deep, narcissistic losses" to Freud...